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Self-directed Learning

I finally did it! How I was dreading this 10mn video but in the end, that was a powerful way of reflecting. I enjoyed working that way with my students. I enjoyed documenting even though I felt sometimes that I was missing some of my students’ learning. Documenting and teaching at the same time is really tricky for me. While putting my video together, I noticed that I didn’t have any shot of my students choosing their topics. Yet I remembered we had a lot of interesting conversations going on in the classroom during that time I regretted also not being able to use SWAY as I did with the first Genius Hour last year. As we started the project early in the school year, my students didn’t have an email address until mid-October, therefore their presentation was already well advanced. [embed]https://youtu.be/CXM6tZ5teZk[/embed] New beginnings Coetail gave me the little  big push that I needed to feel comfortable with Educational technology, how to use it and what to address. The programme I